Onyx Boox Note PRO is available soon

The Boyue Likebook Mimas proved there is a big market for a 10.3 inch e-reader with a front-lit display and color temperature system. Onyx is going to be releasing their answer to the Mimas, with the Note PRO that has the same lighting system.

The Note PRO features a 10.3 inch E-ink Mobius and Carta display and a resolution of 1872×1404 and 227 PPI. It has a WACOM screen for the stylus and a capacitive touchscreen for interactions involving swipes and gestures. The PRO will also feature the same glass based display as the Note Plus, so the screen will not get damaged no matter how hard you press on the stylus, and doesn’t really need a screen protector.

Underneath the hood is a 1.6GHZ quad core processor, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, dual speakers, mic, Bluetooth 4.0, USB C and WIFI. Onyx was the first e-reader company to employ a quad processor and it dramatically increases the performance of navigating around the device, surfing the internet, turning the pages of a book or using Android apps.

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Any word on the Nova plus? While I’d love a 10.3 screen a 8 inch screen would probably be more pratical (and cheaper) or carrying around.

lanuovaterra

13,3 ” with quad core cpu and SD slot!
even if front light is ok

FishyLuv

I want Onyx to come out with the e-ink laptop they teased a year ago. As an author, I dream of having an e-ink screen to reduce eye strain. Blue light filters are just not enough.

Jason Ader

I use a hacked DPT-RP1 with a Thinkpad for this purpose. The ‘Spacedesk ‘ app allows me to use the Sony as a monitor with very little delay.

Scruffy

less sd slot, that’s onyx max 2

I want a 13.3″, light and flushed screen. With 64gb, don’t need an sd card

allbluedream

I’m a big fan of Onyx devices, but I am really starting to hate their product strategy. If the Note, Note Plus, and Note Pro came out at the same time, I would have gone for the Pro without hesitation. They had a flushed screen prototype before I bought the Note, so it’s not like they needed all the time to develop features for these incremental upgrades.

Maxime Desrosiers

get a dasung paperwhite pro monitor…

Nired Wuglar

They better move beyond android 6.0 on this one. One thing they could do is to have a github repo with the source code to have some transparency. I wonder if they could ever get a system going on a google generic system image with treble support.

FishyLuv

So let me get this straight: You want me to walk into my local Starbucks, where there are no plugs and precious few tables, and lug an enormous monitor to hook to my laptop? Thanks, bro. Why didn’t I think of that?

otnte

What is holding you back to use Note or Max with Bluetooth keyboard of your choice instead of some crappy Onyx laptop experiment?

Azalia-Zally Varona-Hahn

I wonder how it will compare in price with the Likebook Mimas

FishyLuv

Because Word for Android is garbage and Scrivener for Android is an abomination. I need Windows or iOS. If not, a Hackintosh. You can’t run macOS on a Max.

Sportbike Mike

Could you lay a 13″ Onyx Boox Max over you laptop screen and just mirror it with the HDMI port. I thought about doing this myself but realized I don’t spend that much time writing on the computer (about 6 hours a week) and when I do I’m coding, which benefits from a color screen.

Sportbike Mike

There should be a Nova Pro as well.

FishyLuv

Yes, I have considered that. I almost pulled the trigger on it this Christmas after working day and night on a novel. But . . . wouldn’t it be nice to have an e-ink laptop without the hassle of lugging around an extra screen everywhere? I was so excited when they announced the laptop and then they Lucy-with-the-football’d it away.

They won’t. Android 6.0 is the last version of Android that works on e-readers. The only other alternative is Android GO, which is based on 8.0 and is more lightweight, but I don’t know anyone who has even tested this on e-readers yet.

Nova Plus isn’t even out yet. I think it is going to be released soon. Even the better version of the Poke is experiencing massive stock shortages.

otnte

I thought you mentioned you’re author/writer typing away your guts when input can be done on epaper followed by formatting it on proper device. You gonna waist your life waiting for Windows or iOS device with EInk screen.

tolstyy

Just 64GB memory. And what I gonna do with my MicroSD 128GB, fulll of books? Only Boyue Mimas !!!

tolstyy

64 GB Internal Memory? And what I gonna do with my MicroSD 128GB, full of books? And no hard page turn buttons, really? So, only Boyue Mimas !!!

Zanshi Kaijin

I was initially a fan of the Onyx brand. Got an Onyx Boox Pro: 32GB with a microSD card slot. Seemed perfect. But the reader finally stopped recognizing the slot and I lost all that extra space. 64GB might not be enough, I want to carry around a RPG PDF gaming book library and that can be pretty bulky. So I’m thinking the Boyue might be worth a try as it isn’t much more expensive than the Pro was. I didn’t use the Pro for my gaming library, BTW – too small a screen. I have a 12″ Samsung tablet for that. But it is pretty bulky, and I fear the battery is in need of replacement.

Jason Ader

I use the Hacked DPT-RP1 with ‘Spacedesk’ app for a wireless extended monitor for this purpose. Lightweight, no wires, and I have a fantastic Note/PDF device for editing and proofreading.

Nired Wuglar

6.0 would be the last if they picked more recent processors with updated kernel support. 6.0 has not been receiving security updates for a while, I would not put my google password in one. Skipping all the way to Pie GO with Treble support would be the thing to do now.

tolstyy

Well, after my experience with Boyue Mimas I wanna confess that I was damn wrong about it. Mimas is so crappy. Here are the following cons:
1. Gray screen, get eye pain each time I see it.
2. No MicroSD 128GB support. I formatted my one but still Mimas does not want to recognize it.
3. No internal app for DJVU books reading, just one external app and it is more crappy than Onyx internal.
4. Fragile screen. My item from Ereader store came with scratches.
So, I goona wait for a new Onyx Boox Note Pro and will forget crappy Boyue company as a nightmare.

trotos

So, in any review I’ve read/seen any of those pitfalls are mentioned. Care to demonstrate them (pictures-videos)
thank you
(I am to want to buy a 10.3 ereader/notetaken and I can wait for April or May)

I_LikeBook

To use the microsd you have to have the device format it for you as android internal storage under the android settings, not format it on computer. This does mean you can’t pop the sd card back and forth between device and computer, but you can just connect with usb so doesn’t matter. Gray screen seems pretty normal, same as my kindle paperwhite with both backlights turned off. Screen is plastic but that’s why it comes with screen protector. Lack of djvu is annoying but I imagine more firmware/software updates will be forthcoming and I just convert djvu to epub before transferring so big deal.

Hugo Bitterolf

Hi. Could Peter or Michael tell me if the fact that a new layer (the front light) is added – compared with the Boox Note – does make the Boox Note Pro screen look more greyish? Any change noticed regarding this aspect? Thanks in advance for your answer.

Sheep

The new front lit screen is garbage. Mine has a massive pinhole light leak in the center of the screen, and when I contacted support they gave me a spec sheet saying that 10 pinholes between .2mm and .5mm are permitted. That’s absurd, depending on how they’re clustered that could make it almost unreadable.